The Tiger 1 Tank played a big role in the battle for Normandy. The heavy tank battalions that went into action against the ...

After participating in a defensive Normandy campaign, Panzer IVs comprised nearly half of the German tank forces during the Battle of the Bulge. 260 Ausf.J type Panzer IVs arrived on the western ...

The German soldiers were also fighting a defensive battle in countryside ideal for defence. Much of inland Normandy is, or was in 1944, bocage country, characterised by small fields, high hedgerows ...

the Allied invasion of Normandy. The goal was to break through to Caen so that it could be liberated. The British had mustered as many as 1,100 tanks for the battle. The Wehrmacht had only around ...

Eighty-one years after William Owens helped stop Nazi forces in Normandy, the Army posthumously awarded him the Distinguished ...

Great tank battles have taken place in more recent times ... s eventual trapping of Allied armies at Dunkirk. Following the Normandy invasion, the Allies troop movements had reached a stalemate ...

James Holland was researching the Sherwood Rangers when he discovered the site where one of the unit's Sherman tanks was hit ...